Intuition, Water, and Tales from a Boy
Thinking about times past, lessons, and inspired moments and a little sun burned cheeks, few words, and a fearless countenance comes to...
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Jeff Fuchs
Apr 14, 20201 min read
Live Chat with Michael Kleinwort and Kora this Wednesday April 15th at 16:00 PST
Within one of the many nomadic encampments where Michael and I shared tea, warmth, and tales. Will be chatting all things mountains,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 17, 20205 min read
Langtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an Avalanche
Sonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 5, 20206 min read
Langtang 2 – Across What Was
Langtang, the land called “Ox’s land” is grassland valley and ‘was’ a village…one that has been destroyed, reset eastward and rebuilt (if...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 16, 20194 min read
Langtang – Himalayan Water Towers…and herbs
Perceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 19, 20192 min read
Feature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)
Timely cover feature in Outpost magazine as I head back up and into Nepal’s Himalayas and their tales and characters, their struggles,...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Our “In From the Outpost” TV Teasers Are Officially Out
One of the most impactful concepts and terms last year was the word ‘Ayni’. Used in the Andean world by many of its peoples, it was a...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 29, 20194 min read
Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek
The second part of our journey took us from the high arid zones of Mustang right into the rumbling, high spires of Solukhumbu. The lands...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 20, 20192 min read
Mustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa Route
Returns insist upon some reflection and this return is no different. Half a month upon that route of high along the eastern flank of...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 29, 20193 min read
Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky
There are few other gateway spaces that lead to zones of majesty, silence and winds, that are themselves such chaotic charmers, as...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 11, 20193 min read
Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times
When, a few years ago, I left northwestern Yunnan to join my wife Julie and live here in Hawaii, there were concerns that I’d somehow be...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20191 min read
Tea Horse Road – Witness
“The tea caravans would come from the north and they would come in Spring and even winter. The Khampas who accompanied the caravans could...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 2, 20191 min read
Part 2 of our ‘In from the Outpost’
Second Part of our recent ramblings through Peru and the Andean world, with a visit to the village of Chawaytiri here. After demolishing...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 11, 20191 min read
In the Land of Ayni (Part 1) – Outpost Magazine
Part 1 of our journey into the Andean world and my own slight obsession with the concept and Quechuan word, Ayni, here. The Quechuan word...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 22, 20185 min read
Mustang Spaces 3 – The Smell of Smoke, The Scent of Sun
Withered little holes of caves rest in a line hundreds of metres above on a sheer wall of red stone. This pattern has repeated itself...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 8, 20187 min read
Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains
The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Mustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa Route
Returns can soothe and returns to mountain spaces can do so with a powerful combination of elemental force and nostalgia for me. It...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 1, 20184 min read
In from the Outpost – Peru Tributes
What reassuringly startles the mind – while settling the heart – at times is the sheer symmetry of landscapes and spaces, and the...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 2, 20181 min read
Himalayan Pashmina – The Journeys That Wool Took
Outpost Magazine just revisited a story I wrote about a series of trade routes that brought Pashmina wool from high in the Himalayas down...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 27, 20181 min read
Canadian Geographic Interview – A Revisit with the Tea Horse Road
Rolling back some years with Canadian Geographic to a time when the leaf and the Tea Horse Road came full force into my blood stream. One...
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